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[Ind iana--Wayne C ounty]
Mrs.Mary C. Thorne of Selma, Clark County, Ohio, wrote to W. H. Siebert, March 3, 1892, that many of the Friends or Quakers who settled in and around Richmond, Indiana, were from the South, mostly from North Carolina, having left that section on account of slavery. Her grand¬ parents on both sides were of that number.
In those early days of the settlement of Richmond her father's oldest brother, John Charles, resided near Rich¬ mond and was active in establishing a line of Underground Railroad. The eastern part of Indiana was then a densely wooded country without roads—only Indian trails. The whole northern part of the state was inhabited by Indians. The Kentucky slaveholders had employed the Indians to catch their runav/ay slaves and keep them until the owners came for them. On two or more occasions John Charles accompanied a number of fugitives through the Indian country safely to Canada. As he was a Quaker the Indians helped rather than hindered him. At a time when Mr. Charles was away from home a Ken¬ tucky master in Quaker* s garb came to the house and asked the oldest Charles boy--about 10 years old— if his father had gone to Canada with some niggers. The boy told him he was a wolf in sheep's clothing. The man cursed him and left.
In a few years Levi Coffin came from North Carolina and settled in Newport (later called Fountain City), a village eight miles north of Richmond. For many years he and other antislavery men aided fiigitives.

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[Ind iana--Wayne C ounty]
Mrs.Mary C. Thorne of Selma, Clark County, Ohio, wrote to W. H. Siebert, March 3, 1892, that many of the Friends or Quakers who settled in and around Richmond, Indiana, were from the South, mostly from North Carolina, having left that section on account of slavery. Her grand¬ parents on both sides were of that number.
In those early days of the settlement of Richmond her father's oldest brother, John Charles, resided near Rich¬ mond and was active in establishing a line of Underground Railroad. The eastern part of Indiana was then a densely wooded country without roads—only Indian trails. The whole northern part of the state was inhabited by Indians. The Kentucky slaveholders had employed the Indians to catch their runav/ay slaves and keep them until the owners came for them. On two or more occasions John Charles accompanied a number of fugitives through the Indian country safely to Canada. As he was a Quaker the Indians helped rather than hindered him. At a time when Mr. Charles was away from home a Ken¬ tucky master in Quaker* s garb came to the house and asked the oldest Charles boy--about 10 years old— if his father had gone to Canada with some niggers. The boy told him he was a wolf in sheep's clothing. The man cursed him and left.
In a few years Levi Coffin came from North Carolina and settled in Newport (later called Fountain City), a village eight miles north of Richmond. For many years he and other antislavery men aided fiigitives.